Item
Les plus belles fables d'Ésope
- Title
- en_US Les plus belles fables d'Ésope
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- No Author
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Dalton, Kelly Anne
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:00Z
- 2023-07
- en_US 2020
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:00Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2020
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a large (8¾" x 10⅞"), heavy 248-page book that I found where I might have least expected, in a small Parisian bookshop I passed almost every day on the way to the Seine. The surprise is that I had not found it at Gibert Jeune, my normal source for recent French fable books. The book features a cameo on its cover of the grasshopper singing and resting against a tree. The book begins with a T of C and then an unusual element, a "Table Thématique," listing first kinds of animals and then kinds of people. The colored illustrations fill the page without borders, and prose fables with morals are superimposed on them. Many fables have two images, or even three like "The Eagle and Fox" (37-39) and MSA (129-31). One might be surprised by stories like that on 21, where a famished wolf lets a child go for telling three things, the third of which is "Death to Wolves!" Someone has, I believe, brought the fables together so that there is continuity, as from one mosquito story to another (44-45) or in the long sequence of fox stories from 51 through 71. The designs are simple but intelligent. The menacing wolf looks down from the height of a waterfall on the puzzled lamb (8-9). The sad story of the frog and mouse is pictured well by showing the tie-up between two legs (50). There is a touch of the joy reminiscent of the Untermeyers' approach in a two-page spread like "The Ass Carrying a Statue" (96-97) or "The Hares and the Frogs" (188-89). One last favorite is the book's last fable: TB is a delight spread across two pages (246-47). Every fable gets at least one illustration. This is an extensive artistic effort that is worth it!
- Identifier
- en_US 13373 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Auzou
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection